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Bruce’s Garden: Community Collaborative Art Project with Howard Better

Artist and educator, Howard Better has been gracing Bruce’s Garden and the Inwood community with his fantastical collage art for many years. Now, he invites everyone to join him for a special all-day workshop in the garden, located at Park Terrace East and Isham Park.

Program:
“In this workshop, participants will contribute images to a large collage mural, which will grow and transform as more people add their creativity.

In addition, there will be a set of collaged cans that I encourage people to pick up, examine, and rearrange into new configurations—like building a miniature city of cans.”
— Howard Better
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Proyecto y taller de arte colaborativo comunitario con el artista de collage Howard Better

Sábado, 13 de septiembre de 2025 · Jardín – Bruce’s Garden · Todo el día · Todas las edades

Durante muchos años, el artista Howard Better ha embellecido Bruce’s Garden y la comunidad de Inwood con su fantástico arte de collage. Ahora, nos invita a acompañarlo en un taller especial de un día completo, en este hermoso jardín ubicado en Park Terrace East dentro del parque Isham Park.
Programa del taller:
“En este taller, contribuirás con imágenes a un gran mural de collage que crecerá y se transformará a medida que más personas agreguen su creatividad.
Además, habrá un conjunto de latas —las ‘latas de collage’— que quiero que toquen, examinen y organicen en nuevas configuraciones… como construir una ciudad en miniatura de latas.”
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Bruce’s Garden Summer Readings

Julie Salamon
The Ghosts of Tenth Avenue

Noted author Julie Salamon https://juliesalamon.com/ will discuss her forthcoming book, The Ghosts of Tenth Avenue (The Penguin Press, 2026.)  Along with being an accomplished author of numerous books including including New York Times best-seller, Wendy and the Lost Boys, a biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, (The Penguin Press, 2011) Julie is also chair of the Board of Directors of the  non-profit Bowery Residents Committee aka BRC.

Presently, the BRC is building the women’s shelter on Tenth Avenue and 212th street. When they learned that early maps showed their building’s site had been a cemetery for enslaved people, the board decided to include a memorial into the shelter’s design. Julie began her research.

Bruce’s Garden Summer Readings

Geoff Wisner on George Tempelton Strong’s Civil War Diaries

George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (Library of America, 2026) Geoff Wisner, editor.

Geoff Wisner is an author and editor whose work is published widely. In his latest book, the noted Thoreau scholar turned his keen editorial insights to the prolific diarist George Templeton Strong’s writings on the Civil War. These writings are remarkably vivid and suffused with novelistic detail. Strong wrote eyewitness accounts of the 1863 Draft Riots, field hospitals teeming with wounded men, and his meetings with both Grant and Lincoln. This book is greatly anticipated by scholars, and should also be a great read for all interested in New York history.